On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Kelvin Teh wrote:
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> I am having problems mounting my win95 harddisks under Linux. They are
> FAT16 partitions (not FAT32). However my parttions are more than 512MB
> (1024MB) but soem of my smaller partitions also have problems. Is there a
> limitation to mounting win95 parttions that I should know about.
> I tried this
> mkdir /dos
> mount -t msdos /dev/hda2 /dos
> but the system gave a an error message saying that i ran out of partitions
> or something like dat (i will check the exact wording when i reach my linux
> box at home if that is neccessary).
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> Could someone throw something back my way on this?!? Thanks
Win95 is type vfat, not msdos (long filenames), but that shouldn't be the
problem. Is this partition on the same disk as your Linux partition? If
not, it could be some cylinder mapping difference.
Frank
